Overview
Are you passionate about AI, data, and transformative user experiences? Do you bring energy, curiosity, and a strong sense of ownership to your work?
The Finance Data & Experiences (FD&E) organization is on a mission to redefine how Microsoft measures, monitors, and optimizes its global business — and we’re looking for top talent to join us. This is a unique opportunity to lead with bold ideas, apply cutting-edge technology, and work across Finance, Sales, Marketing, Business Operations, and Product Engineering to deliver high-impact business solutions. The right candidate will thrive in fast-paced, cross-functional environments, bring fresh thinking to complex problems, and be eager to learn to take ownership of end-to-end processes and outcomes. Join us and be part of a team that’s pushing the boundaries of innovation, taking risks, and implementing AI to drive business excellence
At FD&E, we foster a culture of customer centricity, innovation, agility, and transparency — and we’re building a team that’s ready to help Microsoft chart its next chapter in AI-driven business excellence.
As a Software Engineer II at Microsoft, you’ll be part of a team of world-class engineers leveraging cutting-edge Microsoft Cloud and AI technologies to deliver modern, scalable, and intelligent systems that drive the Microsoft business forward.
Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.
Responsibilities
- Assess, recommend, and adopt relevant new technologies, tools, and processes from Microsoft and industry.
- Support and influence the team culture customer-centricity and continuous improvement.
- Implement practices that ensure accurate, safe, and efficient releases for our services.
- Implement and maintain excellent design and development processes.
- Use AI in your daily coding and advocate to the team and customers an evolving state-of-the-art of how best to do this.
- Collaborate with others to solve complex problems keeping pace with our global business.
- Leverage sound engineering practices and principles.
- Flight code changes, use telemetry and analytics to take a understand customer impact.
- Provide technical feedback to our product engineering partners to evolve and mature our Azure services and Power Platform.
- Work with multiple client partner teams to implement cohesive end-to-end experiences.
Qualifications
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 2+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience.
**Preferred Qualifications **
Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 3+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
- OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 5+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
- OR equivalent experience.
Experience delivering large-scale, production-quality software systems.
Solid software engineering fundamentals, including system design, algorithms, testing, debugging, and code review.
Ability to lead technical direction and mentor engineers in a collaborative team environment.
Comfort operating in ambiguous, fast-paced environments where best practices are evolving.
Hands-on experience with AI-powered developer tools and coding assistants, such as GitHub Copilot (and Copilot Workspace), OpenAI Codex/ChatGPT, Claude Code, or Cursor.
Familiarity with agentic AI development patterns, including multi-step reasoning, tool/function calling, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), and human-in-the-loop workflows.
Experience building with large language models (LLMs), prompt engineering, agent frameworks, or orchestration tools (e.g., LangChain, Semantic Kernel, AutoGen, or similar).
Experience working with agentic systems, including plugins, agents, skills, or hooks.
Background in developer tooling, build systems, CI/CD pipelines, or large-scale engineering infrastructure.
Software Engineering IC3 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $100,600 - $199,000 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $131,400 - $215,400 per year.
Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay
This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.
Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about **requesting accommodations.**